Need a ghostscript maintainer

Need a ghostscript maintainer

[Christopher Faylor]

Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?

The old one is too busy currently.

Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.


cgf

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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
>
>The old one is too busy currently.
>
>Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.

No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.

cgf

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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
> >
> >The old one is too busy currently.
> >
> >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.
> 
> No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
> ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.

Since ghostscript is fairly well supported for native win32 builds (binaries
could be found quite easy too) and presumely doesn't use any unix specific
functionality, it could be possible to not provide it with Cygwin at all.
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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry@baikal.ru>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer


> "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
> > >
> > >The old one is too busy currently.
> > >
> > >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.
> >
> > No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
> > ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.
>
> Since ghostscript is fairly well supported for native win32 builds
(binaries
> could be found quite easy too) and presumely doesn't use any unix specific
> functionality, it could be possible to not provide it with Cygwin at all.

In fact it didn't use to be provided. Users asked for it. Check the
archives. (Native ghostscript doesn't support cygwin paths for starters &&
what about X support).

Rob


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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:

> > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
> > > >
> > > >The old one is too busy currently.
> > > >
> > > >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.
> > >
> > > No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
> > > ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.
> >
> > Since ghostscript is fairly well supported for native win32 builds
> (binaries
> > could be found quite easy too) and presumely doesn't use any unix specific
> > functionality, it could be possible to not provide it with Cygwin at all.
> 
> In fact it didn't use to be provided. Users asked for it. Check the
> archives. (Native ghostscript doesn't support cygwin paths for starters &&
> what about X support).

Well, cygwin path is not the crucial argument for a user working in the win32
environment, is it? An X support is not so critical either, while we are not
talking about remote displays.
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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer

[Jerome BENOIT]

Cygwin path unixlike and the ability to use GS in scripts are crucial
at least for `teTeX' if one want manipulate figures (for example):
futhermore is hard to say what is crucial or not for an arbitrary user.
As other basic tools, GS is needed to a get a good unixlike environment.

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> 
> "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > > >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
> > > > >
> > > > >The old one is too busy currently.
> > > > >
> > > > >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.
> > > >
> > > > No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
> > > > ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.
> > >
> > > Since ghostscript is fairly well supported for native win32 builds
> > (binaries
> > > could be found quite easy too) and presumely doesn't use any unix specific
> > > functionality, it could be possible to not provide it with Cygwin at all.
> >
> > In fact it didn't use to be provided. Users asked for it. Check the
> > archives. (Native ghostscript doesn't support cygwin paths for starters &&
> > what about X support).
> 
> Well, cygwin path is not the crucial argument for a user working in the win32
> environment, is it? An X support is not so critical either, while we are not
> talking about remote displays.
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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer

[Charles S. Wilson]

Robert Collins wrote:

> 
> In fact it didn't use to be provided. Users asked for it. Check the
> archives. (Native ghostscript doesn't support cygwin paths for starters &&
> what about X support).
>


Actually, until cygwin-xfree becomes an official part of the 
setup.exe-supported cygwin platform, ghostscript should not be built 
with X support at all.  If ghostscript has X support, then it will 
*require* that users download & install the huge cygwin-xfree package 
(without the assistance of setup.exe) -- or else gs.exe will complain of 
missing dll's.

Thus, the "official" ghostscript package shouldn't have X 
support/dependency.

For the rest of the question, "Why provide a cygwin ghostscript?", 
Jerome's answer is good (paraphrase):

The ability to understand and use unixlike cygwin path constructs, and 
to call gs.exe from scripts are crucial in many cases, especially 'teTeX'.

--Chuck


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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer.

[Christopher Faylor]

ghostscript has already been built successfully.  Check the archives.

However, this really doesn't help in my quest for a maintainer.

I did have one (1) response to my query.  I hope that this person was
serious and is setting up the environment now for building ghostscript
now.  I'll be very happy if that is the case.

cgf

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:43:24AM -0400, Ronald W. Cook wrote:
>I would very much like ghostscript "gs" available on the cygwin/X
>command line.
>
>I have installed it on Solaris and need it for research with Cygwin.
>
>Efforts to compile it with gcc stumble on a vfork "temporary"
>problem that, researched a bit, relate to resource problems that I
>have not gotten around yet.  There were also unresolved X symbols.
>
>Ghostscript is extremely handy with Generic Mapping Tool which
>successfully compiled OOTB.  GMT is a fantastic mapping program
>as well as a general purpose plotting program and ideally suited
>for unix and piping.
>
>I don't think I would want maintenance responsibility; but I will
>continue to try to get it working and if successfull will post to the
>list.
>
>Last I used xv, it relied on gs, as do other programs.  gs is handy
>for converting postscript to tiff, jpeg, etc. for import into Word or
>Powerpoint, and the quad combination gs, GMT, W & PP are the
>main reason I went after this dual OS platform.  Well, scripting
>and vi were other  main reasons.
>
>In a pinch, I use the Windows binary version.
>
>"The old one is too busy currently."
>Ron Cook
>cowaro.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:44 PM
>Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer
>
>
>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
>> >
>> >The old one is too busy currently.
>> >
>> >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.
>>
>> No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
>> ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.
>>
>> cgf

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Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer.

[Ronald W. Cook]

I would very much like ghostscript "gs" available on the cygwin/X
command line.

I have installed it on Solaris and need it for research with Cygwin.

Efforts to compile it with gcc stumble on a vfork "temporary"
problem that, researched a bit, relate to resource problems that I
have not gotten around yet.  There were also unresolved X symbols.

Ghostscript is extremely handy with Generic Mapping Tool which
successfully compiled OOTB.  GMT is a fantastic mapping program
as well as a general purpose plotting program and ideally suited
for unix and piping.

I don't think I would want maintenance responsibility; but I will
continue to try to get it working and if successfull will post to the
list.

Last I used xv, it relied on gs, as do other programs.  gs is handy
for converting postscript to tiff, jpeg, etc. for import into Word or
Powerpoint, and the quad combination gs, GMT, W & PP are the
main reason I went after this dual OS platform.  Well, scripting
and vi were other  main reasons.

In a pinch, I use the Windows binary version.

"The old one is too busy currently."
Ron Cook
cowaro.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: Need a ghostscript maintainer


> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:15:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >Anyone interested in being the new ghostscript maintainer?
> >
> >The old one is too busy currently.
> >
> >Send me private email (?!?) if you're interested.
>
> No takers?  Isn't anyone even curious about this?  I'll have to remove
> ghostscript from the distribution if we can't get a maintainer.
>
> cgf
>
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